Ray Bradbury: 5 June, aged 91 - 30 culture greats who died in 2012

Ray Bradbury's best-known novel, Fahrenheit 451, meant that he was routinely
described as a science fiction writer; in fact, his work was mostly fantasy
which combined the Gothic and the pastoral in almost mythic depictions of
childhood, innocence, corruption and – above all else – small-town America.